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BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


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the famine resulted from stalin's imposition of total wholesale collectivization of peasant agriculture across eurasia but there is no evidence that it was specifically directed at ukraine OP

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BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


Lipstick Apathy
Golden Corral has been turned into Soviet Corral. Jeff Foxworthy has been liquidated

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


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https://twitter.com/getfiscal/status/987686845071941633

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


Lipstick Apathy
So Kotkin writes that Stalin engaged in piracy while he was living in Baku after he blowed up the money carriage in Tiflis?

He was a Caspian Sea pirate? Can someone explain???

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


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He also writes that despite all the political murder and general Wild West tomfoolery happening in the Caucasus at that time, the real bad boys were the Dashnaks, i.e. Armenians and when I read that I thought yeah that makes sense

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BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


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Holy gently caress the toxic environment in Baku killed his wife who violently bled out from tuberculosis. Stalin then tried to throw himself into her grave. This is heavy poo poo

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